tl;dr: Yann LeCun, one of AI's "godfathers," dismisses existential AI risks as overblown, blaming recent rogue agent incidents on poor engineering rather than inherent danger, and calling effective altruism "toxic" while labeling Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei "deluded" for pushing doom narratives he sees as regulatory capture. LeCun has left Meta to build AMI Labs, a Paris-headquartered startup developing "world models" based on his JEPA architecture, targeting industrial applications like anomaly detection and robotics rather than language, which he believes will eventually supersede LLMs.